My SE/30's battery BLEW UP!

[MinerAl]

I'm impatient, and alcohol dries really fast...



Yay!

I won't trust this LB anymore for the main SE/30, but it's nice to see it rise from its apparent doom.

The FDD works too! I'll have to see what's up with the HD in there though.

 

[James1095]

It'll probably be just fine. Looks like you caught it before serious damage was done. As long as you got it cleaned up I see no reason not to trust it to keep going.

 

[volvo242gt]

Yup. Suspect that with a recap, you'll be good to go. With respect to the hard drive, pop it in an external case and see if you can fix it with DiskWarrior running on another Mac... Might just have borked boot blocks.

-J

 

[MinerAl]

Is it easy to replace the battery holder, or should I just live without a clock?

 

[volvo242gt]

Shouldn't be too hard. IIRC, it's just soldered on. Any pre-Intel Mac will have the holder on its board.

-J

 

[Blinkenlightz]

Does anyone know a source of replacement battery holders, other than scavenging from another logic board?

 

[uniserver]

It's like they had it right the first time with the Compacts (128k,512k, PLUS) with the external battery holder.

Granted they were using alkaline batteries, not lithium.

 

[MinerAl]

If I were going to be using these with infrequent regularity, I'd use a dowel to hold lead wires in contact on the LB out to a battery pack hanging out the back that I could pop three NiMH AAAs (1.2v each) in when I was using them. There's a thread around here about using battery packs instead of 3.6v batteries, only I'd dangle them out the back for safety.

 

[uniserver]

I installed a new holder on there for you buddy

well a good one from a Dead PM 6100 board.

 

[MinerAl]

It's gorgeous. I'll post pics in the morning.

 

[MinerAl]

Still technically morning somewhere...

Before & After

Beautiful work.

(Sorry my camera doesn't focus. I'll try again with a different camera soon)

 

[techknight]

take that camera and toss it in the microwave, youll do it a favor ;-)

 

[macosten]

A better favor: IMO you should just yank your PRAM batteries out as soon as you can. From what I've read here, it's a scarily common problem.

Think about it: Would you rather have a few preference files saved or a working mac? :beige:

 

[volvo242gt]

If the batteries are replaced every 5-10 years, then no big deal. Personally, I'd rather have both.

-J

 

[Paralel]

That's why I just leave the PRAM batteries out of mine. I just know I won't remember in 5-10 years